The final gallery page, Synthetic Soul Corp. went up last week! The Asylum is now at a place which we can call, for better or for worse, “complete”.

Deepest apologies to those with a slow connection or utilising mobile devices, there are quite a lot of images on some of the gallery pages (Soul Corp. in particular has twice as many images as any of the other pages), as such, loading times can be a bit of a pain. In the future lazy loading is a thing that might happen, but for the time being I’m kind of burned out and will be taking a break to work on costumes and Separation Anxiety (which is looking good for release next month).

Maybe try to get that 30 days of porn meme finished too…

_{Day 21 – Sticky Situation}

Some of the other pages have had some updates too, since I’ve got a bit of actual discernible free time now!

Some fanart, that didn’t get super weird!

_{But does involve copious amounts of bromance because you know I’m a sucker for that.}

Speaking of terrible Homestuck fanart and tediously relating that back to my preferred fanart method (cosplay) a new piece has been added to my Karkat costume:

_{KARKAT: STAND BY. I’M PUTTING YOU ON SPEAKER CRAB.
DAVE: speaker crab
KARKAT: YES. SPEAKER CRAB.
DAVE: man dont put me on speaker crab}

The crabmunicator.

It is made out of polycaprolactone (Plastimake) which was moulded over a polystyrene base.

The base was just one of those polystyrene balls, about the size of my fist, cut in half.

_{Basically sums up my life.}

The arms/legs/pincers were each moulded separately, then left to cool, then dipped back in boiling water to join each piece together.

I used colour pellets in the plastic , but kind of failed at the colour mixing and ended up painting over the thing with acrylics after it had set. There were about 3 coats of paint before being finished with matte sealant spray.

The eyes are green fish tank pebbles which were glued on with PVA.

Wristband is a simple piece of cotton canvas, interfaced with a mid-weight fusing, which fastens via a polyester strap. The crab attaches to the wristband via Velcro (which was why a polystyrene base was used; the solid Plastimake would have been too heavy causing it to fall off). Velcro on the wristband was sewn on, but for the piece on the crab a combination of PVA and hot glue was used.

I sort of want to make some Prospit and God Tier pyjamas for Karkat at some point too. But we’ll see how the current workload goes first.